Editing: Font

Today myself and Imogens job was to look and interesting fonts online from the website Dafont to try and find something for the titles. I want to stick to a font that will be quite bold and will stand out and is easy for the audience to read as well as interesting.

This is the first font that we looked at i really like this one as it is a strong font, its very bold, very clear exactly what i personally was looking for. It is also very masculine and would fit in very well with the our story line, i also love the fact its in capitals as it adds drama.

This is the second font that we looked at on the website that drew our attention. Personally i am not fond of this font as it has a very feminine feel to it, although it could be interesting as it would go against the normal conventions of a thriller film. Also the use of texture in the text makes it almost look like twigs found in a forest which is quite scary. I think that aspect of the font would make it fit in with the horror aspect of our film, but i was looking for something that is bold and something very dramatic and unfortunately this font doesn't have that.

Finally this is the third font that we had picked out of the bunch. I think this one would be perfect as it is bold, it stands out, its very interesting to look at and it has that drama as well as the capital letters. I think the different hight's give it that edgy tone to it and this could suggest that it doesn't follow the thriller convention. However it's not so different that it wouldn't go with our story line.

Overall out of all of the fonts that we looked at today i think we should choose the third and final one 'Dirty Headline' as its very interesting and defiantly would fit in would not only our genre but also the storyline of our film.

Planning: Dialogue

This is the dialouge which Bethany wrote for the news shown on the TV.

Announcer:

Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to Spotlight. Here today to explain to us the dramatic resigning of Pope Benedict due to the Saint sinner killings. The Lords messenger Arch Bishop Hartley.

Hartley:

May our lord bless you and keep you citizens of God we have received information about the dead sinners who whilst their sin was great their souls were redeemable without this violence.

Announcer:

What is the church doing about this situation?

Hartley:

Well we are obviously working with the police on these so called Saint Sinner murders and are trying to solve this as quickly as possible. There will not be a government enquiry but these murders are in no way connected to the resignation of the Pope.

Announcer:

I think the public will refuse to believe that, we all know what’s going on in the Vatican and no one here would be surprised if one of your alter boys turned and did the killings. We all know the treatment they get.

Hartley:

Obviously this has nothing to…The Vatican is in no way implicated, no minister or vicar is involved this is obviously a fanatic carrying out God’s work.

Announcer:

Are you saying you agree with the killings?

Hartley:

Obviously this is an observation upon the prophecy and the true Christians are being tested. I assure you everything is being done to persecute them but…

Announcer:

That wasn’t an answer to my question

Hartley:

Well obviously I don’t agree but in principle Satan and his hoards must be punished.

Announcer:

Final question then your Holiness.

Hartley:

Yes, fire away

Announcer:

Where is your God now?

We have filmed this before but i think we all agreed that the sound wasn't very good and it was also too short to have to it going over the majority of the scene. I think Bethany has done a brilliant job and hopefully this time round everything will work with the sound. We are also planning to shoot this on a green screen background to see if we can put a TV studio and a church in the background to make the film look a little more realistic. I think this might be a little difficult to edit but if we can manage to get it right i think it will really add to not only our marks but also to the atmosphere of the film altogether.

Editing

Second Draft Rough Cut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7lYLtHu96k


This link is our second draft rough cut.

Planning: New Location and Actors

Thanks to Imogen and Oscars very good organisation skills we managed to get an excellent location and five new actors.

Actors

Pic 1: Protagonist - Aiden Lever
Pic 2: Child -Angelo Gizzi
Pic 3: Main female torture victim - Lucy Wise
Pic 4: Dead man - Reece Collins
Pic 5: Dead female - Melissa Kerrison
Pic 6: Dead female - Cindy Sidhu

Location

Living Room
Kitchen
Garage
Outside Church

Props

Bible
Rope
Car
Knife

Filming: Third Time Filming

Unfortunately i couldn't be there for the filming of the second draft, as i was away for the whole week of the holidays and the others couldn't do the days i was free. We were going to maybe try and Skype but this seemed to be something of great difficulty and in the end i had just called them up every now and again to check everything was okay and maybe try and have an input in the film. I no that the whole of the title sequence has been changed but this i think was needed as it will show progression and the journey that we have gone on to get to the final edit. I have seen the footage Oscar and Imogen filmed and it was brilliantly done, the mise en scene and make up was amazing as well as some of the new bits, dialogue and also the camera direction.

Planning: Re shoot

We finished our first draft for the film and showed it to our Coursework teach Mr. Ford to see what he thought and what maybe we should include/take out or edit. He suggested to us again that we need to redo the female torture victim as it's not very realistic and we cant compare it to any other Thriller/Horror movies that include this kind of reaction. She also swore to much, and by the survey we did as part of our research shared the audience thinks that too much swearing can ruin a movie and take away the Horror element of it. As well as this unfortunately the group has decided to shoot in the holidays of which i am away, however we are going to attempt and try an internet chat so that i can have some input and some direction to where the movie is going. As well as this we have had to change the location as the location we previously used is no longer available for our use this is the same for the protagonist actor and the second torture victim. However this can be sorted as Imogen luckily knows a friend that would be willing to do it at her house as well as two other torture victims and a protagonist who looks vaguely had the same look as our last protagonist. As well as these changes we decided to change the child to a little boy, and to add in more interaction between him and his father. Another change that we have decided to make with the torture scene is to add in more violent acts such as him kicking the female victim or maybe throwing something at her. We have also decided to show his head as this proved to be very difficult to keep his head out of the shot. It will also allow the audience to interact and no the protagonist.